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Florist: Some people like to have green carnations on St. Patrick’s Da [#permalink] New post   15 Jun 2017, 01:50
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Florist: Some people like to have green carnations on St. Patrick’s Day. But flowers that are naturally green are extremely rare. Thus, it is very difficult for plant breeders to produce green carnations. Before St. Patrick’s Day, then, it is wise for florists to stock up on white carnations, which are fairly inexpensive and quite easy to dye green.

Which one of the following most accurately expresses the overall conclusion of the florist’s argument?

(A) It is a good idea for florists to stock up on white carnations before St. Patrick’s Day.
(B) Flowers that are naturally green are very rare.
(C) There are some people who like to have green carnations on St. Patrick’s Day.
(D) White carnations are fairly inexpensive and can easily be dyed green.
(E) It is very difficult to breed green carnations.

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Re: Florist: Some people like to have green carnations on St. Patrick’s Da [#permalink] New post   15 Jun 2017, 11:09
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One tool to assist you is applying the "therefore test": "a test that can help you to identify the conclusion of a passage is the 'therefore test'. Simply insert the word “therefore” into the passage directly before the phrase that you think is the conclusion."

Applying this test allows you to immediately eliminate (D).
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Re: Florist: Some people like to have green carnations on St. Patrick’s Da [#permalink] New post   10 Sep 2018, 16:20
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my lord ...i don;t think we will encounter this kind of questions on a real gmat test

this is more a RC question ...to get the key point of the speaker
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Re: Florist: Some people like to have green carnations on St. Patrick’s Da [#permalink] New post   15 Jun 2017, 04:45
Akela wrote:
Florist: Some people like to have green carnations on St. Patrick’s Day. But flowers that are naturally green are extremely rare. Thus, it is very difficult for plant breeders to produce green carnations. Before St. Patrick’s Day, then, it is wise for florists to stock up on white carnations, which are fairly inexpensive and quite easy to dye green.

Which one of the following most accurately expresses the overall conclusion of the florist’s argument?

(A) It is a good idea for florists to stock up on white carnations before St. Patrick’s Day.
(B) Flowers that are naturally green are very rare.
(C) There are some people who like to have green carnations on St. Patrick’s Day.
(D) White carnations are fairly inexpensive and can easily be dyed green.
(E) It is very difficult to breed green carnations.

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A is the answer as it basically paraphrases the conclusion.
I was confused as first but then realised that ",which....." is essentially a non-essential modifier and hence, is not required to be paraphrased to get the sense of what the author is trying to say.

Any other thoughts on this?
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Re: Florist: Some people like to have green carnations on St. Patrick’s Da [#permalink] New post   10 Sep 2018, 06:52
This is simply re-stating the conclusion given in argument. There is no change.
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Florist: Some people like to have [#permalink] New post   09 Feb 2019, 08:10
Florist: Some people like to have green carnations on St. Patrick’s Day. But flowers that are naturally green are extremely rare. Thus, it is very difficult for plant breeders to produce green carnations. Before St. Patrick’s Day, then, it is wise for florists to stock up on white carnations, which are fairly inexpensive and quite easy to dye green.

Which one of the following most accurately expresses the overall conclusion of the florist’s argument?
(A) It is a good idea for florists to stock up on white carnations before St. Patrick’s Day.
(B) Flowers that are naturally green are very rare.
(C) There are some people who like to have green carnations on St. Patrick’s Day.
(D) White carnations are fairly inexpensive and can easily be dyed green.
(E) It is very difficult to breed green carnations.
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Re: Florist: Some people like to have [#permalink] New post   09 Feb 2019, 08:47
I just tried this one and selected D for my answer. I immediately regretted because I noticed that D doesn’t mention anything g about “stocking” the flowers which is the big part of the overall conclusion.
Even though A doesn’t talk about dying the flowers green, it still talks about what the florist is trying to say in this stimulus.

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Re: Florist: Some people like to have green carnations on St. Patrick’s Da [#permalink] New post   09 Feb 2019, 09:02
Merged posts.

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Please search on forum before posting new questions.
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Florist: Some people like to have green carnations on St. Patrick’s Da [#permalink] New post   03 Sep 2020, 04:09
This is a main point question. We need to find the inference and authors view point. all we need to do is to find a conclusion which can be a paraphrase of the statement.
Only A touches all the aspects of the argument.
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Re: Florist: Some people like to have green carnations on St. Patricks Da [#permalink] New post   01 Aug 2022, 21:06
I chose E as the answer but I see why I was wrong. A expresses the clear conclusion while E expresses a conclusion which is not the main conclusion of the argument. I got confused because it starts with "Thus" in the argument
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Re: Florist: Some people like to have green carnations on St. Patricks Da [#permalink] New post   07 Aug 2022, 09:29
akela wrote:
Florist: Some people like to have green carnations on St. Patrick’s Day. But flowers that are naturally green are extremely rare. Thus, it is very difficult for plant breeders to produce green carnations. Before St. Patrick’s Day, then, it is wise for florists to stock up on white carnations, which are fairly inexpensive and quite easy to dye green.

Which one of the following most accurately expresses the overall conclusion of the florist’s argument?

(A) It is a good idea for florists to stock up on white carnations before St. Patrick’s Day.
(B) Flowers that are naturally green are very rare.
(C) There are some people who like to have green carnations on St. Patrick’s Day.
(D) White carnations are fairly inexpensive and can easily be dyed green.
(E) It is very difficult to breed green carnations.

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This is one of the rarest of questions that test causality SO MANY times. Normally only once causality is tested or max. twice. Since there are more, it is easy to get lost in between and choose a wrong answer.

Questions with "most accurately expresses the overall conclusion" in its stem do sometime confuse.

Some people like to have green carnations on St. Patrick’s Day -----
But flowers that are naturally green are extremely rare -----> Thus, it is very difficult for plant breeders to produce green carnations -----> Before St. Patrick’s Day, then, it is wise for florists to stock up on white carnations ---/--> which are fairly inexpensive and quite easy to dye green.

Last sentence leads, along with previous sentence to conclusion, florist to conclude that it is wise for florists to stock up on white carnations.

Answer A.
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